Day 1: Examining our relationship with digital media

• Guiding questions – in what ways are we characterized by media? How do we see and understand our own uses of media?
  • Digital Media Survey
    • Our Results
      

      USC Digital English Welcome Survey - Google Forms.pdf
      

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    • Connect to Pew Internet: Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
    • Discussion
  • MEF video: Brand Bombing
    • Freewriting and discussion

Brand	Image/Idea
Samsung	Products on TV shows, show the world that they are one of the most advanced company
Audi	Appear in Ironman movies to show the audience that this is the car that billionaires want
Tobayashi	Glassses brand that shows that they are taking attention with making the glasses and provide good services
Facebook	Connect with friends, what's happening; selling ads, games
Coca Cola	Everybody should love to drink Coca Cola
Nike	Air Jordans -- if you wear this, you will play like Michael Jordan

Brand-- where do you see the ads? What do the ads promise (message)? How does this affect you?

• Break
• Course Overview and Assignments
• Journal prompt/Google Docs

What American Teens Do

• There are some differences in Internet use between American boys and girls. American girls use Facebook more often while boys, however, play video games.
• African American and Hispanic youth are using the internet more often than white teens, which is important because they have not had access in the past.
• Generally the teens from wealthier families are using Snapchat more often and this shows a gap between different backgrounds and incomes.

What We Do

• The frequency in which we use the Internet is much higher than the American teens; we use it constantly while American teens are using it frequently.
• On average, we are sending over 200 text messges a daWe do not use Snapchat, but we do use Facebook, , Whatsapp,

Comparing/contrasting words

• However
• On the other hand
• Alternatively
• Compared to American teens, we use Twitter less often and use Facebook or Instagram instead.

For Day 2: Tue, 5/26/2015: Emergence and distribution of print texts

• Journal: Describe your own relationship with technology and media by illustrating a typical day in your life. What devices do you use and why? What apps and websites are part of your everyday experience? Do you reinforce or challenge assumptions through your use of media and technology?
• Read: Baron, From Pencils to Pixels (Use DocentEDU)
• View: Stephen Fry - The Machine That Made Us (9:17 to 23:20)